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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This.
Do I want an enhanced version of "Pride and Prejudice" with clips from various film versions? I most certainly do not. Nor do I want sound effects or animated graphics in novels.
But in non-fiction? I can see that there could be many useful and welcome enhancements to ebooks in terms of extra audio, video and animation features.
As a very basic sample, a diagram of a four-stroke engine that could be zoomed, rotated and would loop through the engine cycle, would be a vast improvement on a set of static diagrams of the engine in various stages of the engine cycle.
In short:
Fiction: No
Non-fiction: Yes
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The Encarta CD-ROMs did a lot of that as do a lot of educational packages.
Microsoft's ASIMOV'S THE ULTIMATE ROBOT CD-ROM was a brilliant implementation of those concepts, 20 years ago.
But such products are *software* not books.
The kind of stuff the professor wants already exists: appbooks. Plenty to be found all over.
But appbooks are not ebooks.
If he left the ivory tower and visited the real world from time to time he'd see the difference.